Guinnane, Timothy; Moehling, Carolyn; Grada, Cormac O - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001
Ireland's relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive … literature on the fertility transition elsewhere in Europe to refine and test leading hypotheses in their Irish context. The …